Welcome to Positive Diversity!

What you've been reading about is true. Today's young adults need to develop the applied skills of teamwork and diversity to thrive in the 21st century. Colleges and progressive high schools are responding with more student group projects and collaborative classrooms. Employers expect core teamwork skills among college graduates. They also expect effective communication and relationship-building skills across diverse populations. Leveraging 20 years experience leading project teams and diversity initiatives at Fortune 500 companies, we are proud to bring you a wonderful primer, Exploring Teamwork Essentials.
 
We offer a three-hour, highly affordable student / team development program that produces these outcomes:
  • Strong bonds between students.
  • Skill development with listening and suspending judgment of others' views.
  • Insight into the importance of developing interpersonal and team skills for career success.
  • Knowledge of the key attributes of successful teams.
  • Knowledge of team-based communication and behavior norms by ethnicity, gender, generation, and work-styles. 
The basics:
  • First students read an educational booklet, Exploring Teamwork Fundamentals; then group discussion around communication and value norms by ethnicity, gender, and work-styles. 
  • Next they watch a heart-opening documentary film. It sets up the second group discussion, where interpersonal skills of listening and suspending judgment of others' views are practiced. 
  • After the two small-group discussions they bond - appreciating differences in views and recognizing just how much they have in common. 
  • Short written exercises help to assimilate lessons learned.
  • A facilitator is needed for the discussion and film segments, which your staff could easily complete. If you choose to facilitate the cost per student is less than $10.
Our mission is to help you prepare students with interpersonal and teamwork skills needed to succeed in and after college.
 

Exploring Teamwork Essentials simultaneously reinforces your commitment to inclusion, diversity, teamwork, and leadership development.  

Best of all it leaves students wanting more!

This multi-media program effectively answers important questions: Why care about diversity? Why care about teamwork? We form a compelling case that one's success in life is increasingly rooted in their ability to become effective working in teams. We demonstrate how team performance is tightly linked to respecting and valuing the different personal styles, capabilities, and preferences of others. With this foundation established, it also provides a starter education to illuminate differences in communication, value, and behavioral norms across ethnicity, gender, generation, and work styles.

Our goal is to help you build stronger teamwork in your student-led teams while also building a more inclusive and diversity-appreciating culture - be it with high school or college students on campus. Through this foundation program you will prime participants to develop team skills and diversity appreciation. With this compelling foundation in place, your existing programming may become more successful, too!
 
Finally, through the program's content students also report these outcomes: 
  • Self-reflection / what I want to do with my life
  • Compassion / propensity to help others
  • Propensity to develop global perspectives

We are amazed by student response and invite you to take a moment to explore their reactions found in the video and testimonials.  

If your roles or goals include the following, our program will support you: 
 
High school: Student organizations, student council / government, leadership development, IB program, diversity club, team-based learning, 21st century skills, and more.
 
College: Student Organizations, freshman orientation, R.A. programs, Student Affairs, diversity and multicultural programs, student project teams, college student retention, leadership development programs, Making Excellence Inclusive, college roommate exercise, First Year Experience, College 101, University 101, first year seminar, learning communities, inclusion, international student programs and more.
 
 
"This program provided a great and measurable framework for students to learn how to be proactive in understanding one another.”

Jon Hansford
Director of First Year Experience
Campbellsville University
 
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